Sanitation
In a recent statement made in the Karnataka State Secretariat, Vinay Kumar Sorake – Karnataka’s Minister for Urban Development – said that the State would prefer to develop or upgrade existing towns and cities as ‘smart cities’ instead of creating new greenfield cities. With the Union Government not having laid down any guidelines or formula [...] Continue Reading »
While the NSSo’s latest report shows that most Indians now live in pucca houses and have electricity connection, it also paints a bleak picture of sanitation and hygiene conditions in the rural areas. Nearly two-third of dwelling units in villages lack a bathroom and less than half have drinking water facility on the premise. The [...] Continue Reading »
With most of the banks concentrating on funding the mainstream infrastructure projects, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) is exploring the feasibility of supporting development of micro-infrastructure in villages. To work on developing the micro-infrastructure projects in villages in areas such as bore-wells, sanitation, electrification (solar/ biogas/ windmill), warehouse to store farm [...] Continue Reading »
Bangalore- The residents of Govindapura area in Nagawara ward have been facing a series of civic issues including water shortage, poor infrastructure, lack of proper sanitation and sewage system for past many years. Though the area comes under BBMP limits, there is no drinking water and bore-well water is supplied ten days once, complained residents. [...] Continue Reading »
A group of residents led by six ward councillors of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) held a protest at the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG) office, demanding civic amenities in unauthorised colonies in the city. The councillors have demanded that MCG must provide basic amenities like water supply and sanitation in these colonies within [...] Continue Reading »
The Vijayawada Municipal Corporation launched a special sanitation drive to start making the city litter-free. The drive was started on Saturday at the helm of Vijayawada (Central) MLA Malladi Vishnu and Municipal Commissioner Md. Abdul Azeem. The MLA has stated that additional 200 crores, along with already released 700 crores, should be released for the [...] Continue Reading »
The ambitious project taken up by the Margao Municipal Council (MMC) seeking the door-to-door collection of garbage, now seems to be in disorder with the project mostly failing to elicit assistance from the city residents. As being admitted by the civic body itself, sanitary workers have to face hostile conduct from many households and also [...] Continue Reading »
Delhi Government has sorted out issues with Archaeological Survey of India and Forest Department and declared planned development to be carried out in the 98 colonies which were awaiting civic amenities at par with others. The executing agencies have been instructed to ensure better surroundings and sanitation for residents of the colonies. The government stated [...] Continue Reading »
A Planning Commission committee has recommended the entry of private sector in the delivery of public services in an attempt to improve civic amenities. This includes water and sewage treatment. A majority of cities have poor water supply system due to leakages and poor distribution system. Only half of the garbage gets disposed of and [...] Continue Reading »
The residents of Mayfield Gardens in Gurgaon suffered without any electricity and water for more than 24 hours as their transformer of 630 KVA power got burnt on Saturday night. Government bodies, like Town & Country Planning Department and HUDA said they were helpless and asked the residents to sort out the problem on their [...] Continue Reading »
